abby emerson
@abbyemerson.bsky.social
teacher education/antiracism/abolition/arts-based methodologies. asst prof of education in nyc.
i am starting the next semester in all my classes with a few slides on my beliefs about learning. it will serve as a disclaimer for the types of classes i teach. if you are hoping for a "banking model" class where i simply talk at you, you sit quietly, then churn out AI papers - try again.
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
i am starting the next semester in all my classes with a few slides on my beliefs about learning. it will serve as a disclaimer for the types of classes i teach. if you are hoping for a "banking model" class where i simply talk at you, you sit quietly, then churn out AI papers - try again.
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Do you live in NYC City Council district 27 (Cambria Heights, Hollis, Jamaica, St. Albans, Queens Village, Addisleigh Park, and Springfield Gardens)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 27 (Cambria Heights, Hollis, Jamaica, St. Albans, Queens Village, Addisleigh Park, and Springfield Gardens)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
celebrated 14 years with my partner tonight.
earlier today I took my kid holiday shopping for said partner and asked, “well, what do you think he likes?”
without hesitation my kid said, “you! but we already have you…!”
🥹
earlier today I took my kid holiday shopping for said partner and asked, “well, what do you think he likes?”
without hesitation my kid said, “you! but we already have you…!”
🥹
December 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
celebrated 14 years with my partner tonight.
earlier today I took my kid holiday shopping for said partner and asked, “well, what do you think he likes?”
without hesitation my kid said, “you! but we already have you…!”
🥹
earlier today I took my kid holiday shopping for said partner and asked, “well, what do you think he likes?”
without hesitation my kid said, “you! but we already have you…!”
🥹
i submitted my book manuscript to my publisher yesterday! i seem to have forgotten how it's a bit of a scramble at the end to get everything in order EVEN if it's "done" - treated myself to lunch out!
December 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
i submitted my book manuscript to my publisher yesterday! i seem to have forgotten how it's a bit of a scramble at the end to get everything in order EVEN if it's "done" - treated myself to lunch out!
A public school in BK where 84% of students receive free/reduced lunch is fundraising for their enrichment - a school musical and afterschool programming. Would you be able to help out? Any amount is truly appreciated. www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/... (Please put "Giving Tuesday" in the note!)
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December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A public school in BK where 84% of students receive free/reduced lunch is fundraising for their enrichment - a school musical and afterschool programming. Would you be able to help out? Any amount is truly appreciated. www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/... (Please put "Giving Tuesday" in the note!)
i'm supposed to be doing final edits! why i am going in to add more citations and references when the final manuscript is due in 2 weeks?!
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
i'm supposed to be doing final edits! why i am going in to add more citations and references when the final manuscript is due in 2 weeks?!
3pm-10pm is entirely too many straight hours on zoom.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
3pm-10pm is entirely too many straight hours on zoom.
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Do you live in NYC City Council district 39 (Kensington, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 39 (Kensington, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
Do you live in NYC City Council district 36 (Bed-Stuy and North Crown Heights)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send him a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 36 (Bed-Stuy and North Crown Heights)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send him a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
Do you live in NYC City Council district 35 (Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, and Fort Greene)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 35 (Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, and Fort Greene)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
Do you live in NYC City Council district 3 (West Village, Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen, Times Square, Hudson Square, Flatiron, and the Garment District)? Your city council rep is the CHAIR of the libraries subcommittee. Send a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 3 (West Village, Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen, Times Square, Hudson Square, Flatiron, and the Garment District)? Your city council rep is the CHAIR of the libraries subcommittee. Send a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
Do you live in NYC City Council district 39 (Kensington, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 39 (Kensington, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace, Park Slope, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
Do you live in NYC City Council district 50 (mid-Staten Island)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send him a letter asking for stable library funding? @nycplan.org
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 50 (mid-Staten Island)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send him a letter asking for stable library funding? @nycplan.org
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
Do you live in NYC City Council district 49 (North Shore of Staten Island)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding? @nycplan.org
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 49 (North Shore of Staten Island)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding? @nycplan.org
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
Do you live in NYC City Council district 45 ( Flatbush, East Flatbush, Midwood, Flatlands, and parts of Kensington, Marine Park, and Canarsie)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 45 ( Flatbush, East Flatbush, Midwood, Flatlands, and parts of Kensington, Marine Park, and Canarsie)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
Do you live in NYC City Council district 27 (Cambria Heights, Hollis, Jamaica, St. Albans, Queens Village, Addisleigh Park, and Springfield Gardens)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 27 (Cambria Heights, Hollis, Jamaica, St. Albans, Queens Village, Addisleigh Park, and Springfield Gardens)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter asking for stable library funding?
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
Do you live in NYC City Council district 20 (Flushing, Mitchell-Linden, Murray Hill, Queensboro Hill and Fresh Meadows)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter expressing your desire for stable library funding?
@nycplan.org
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
@nycplan.org
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 20 (Flushing, Mitchell-Linden, Murray Hill, Queensboro Hill and Fresh Meadows)? Your city council rep is on the libraries subcommittee. Send her a letter expressing your desire for stable library funding?
@nycplan.org
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
@nycplan.org
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
Do you live in NYC City Council district 48 (Homecrest, Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach)? Your city council rep opposes stable library funding. Care to send her a letter expressing your disagreement? @nycplan.org
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Do you live in NYC City Council district 48 (Homecrest, Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach)? Your city council rep opposes stable library funding. Care to send her a letter expressing your disagreement? @nycplan.org
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
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Feeling inspired to take action this morning?
Join us in calling our City Council members and demand .5% of the budget be committed to fund our libraries!
Already called? Tell us how it went:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us in calling our City Council members and demand .5% of the budget be committed to fund our libraries!
Already called? Tell us how it went:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Feeling inspired to take action this morning?
Join us in calling our City Council members and demand .5% of the budget be committed to fund our libraries!
Already called? Tell us how it went:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Join us in calling our City Council members and demand .5% of the budget be committed to fund our libraries!
Already called? Tell us how it went:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
good job us!! bye cuomo!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
good job us!! bye cuomo!!
working on my book and came across this gem from my dissertation. glad this guy is canonized in academic research.
November 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
working on my book and came across this gem from my dissertation. glad this guy is canonized in academic research.
thanks to a donation from the Brooklyn Book Bodega, we gave out nearly 300 books to trick or treaters at the kids’ school Halloween event!
November 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
thanks to a donation from the Brooklyn Book Bodega, we gave out nearly 300 books to trick or treaters at the kids’ school Halloween event!
my new article, Beyond Antiracism: Abolitionist Teacher Learning Toward Institutional School Change, was just published in the Journal of Teacher Education!
if it's behind a paywall for you, message me and I can send it to you.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
if it's behind a paywall for you, message me and I can send it to you.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
my new article, Beyond Antiracism: Abolitionist Teacher Learning Toward Institutional School Change, was just published in the Journal of Teacher Education!
if it's behind a paywall for you, message me and I can send it to you.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
if it's behind a paywall for you, message me and I can send it to you.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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🎃 Thinking spooky thoughts this Wednesday about what NYC would be like without our libraries?
Join us in calling our City Council Members to demand they commit .5% of the budget for libraries!
Not sure what to say? Not sure who your council member is?
Find out here!
nycplan.org/actions/call..
Join us in calling our City Council Members to demand they commit .5% of the budget for libraries!
Not sure what to say? Not sure who your council member is?
Find out here!
nycplan.org/actions/call..
October 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
🎃 Thinking spooky thoughts this Wednesday about what NYC would be like without our libraries?
Join us in calling our City Council Members to demand they commit .5% of the budget for libraries!
Not sure what to say? Not sure who your council member is?
Find out here!
nycplan.org/actions/call..
Join us in calling our City Council Members to demand they commit .5% of the budget for libraries!
Not sure what to say? Not sure who your council member is?
Find out here!
nycplan.org/actions/call..